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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 5
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God is in heaven—A fool’s voice is known by multitude of words—Keep thy vows—Riches and wealth are the gift of God.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reverence."><span class='smallcaps'>Keep</span></a> thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
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Be not <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rashness.">rash</a> with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Haste.">hasty</a> to <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/5/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Matt. 12: 36; Eph. 5: 4.">utter</a> <i>any</i> thing before God: for God <i>is</i> in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy <sup>d</sup><a href="eccl/5/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Matt. 6: 7.">words</a> be few.
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice <i>is known</i> by multitude of words.
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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for <i>he hath</i> no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 21.">vowed</a>.
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Better <i>is it</i> that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Honesty.">vow</a> and not pay.
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Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it <i>was</i> an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
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For in the multitude of dreams and many words <i>there are</i> also <i>divers </i><sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanities</a>: but <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/7b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR revere thou God; Eccl. 3: 14.">fear</a> thou God.
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&#182; If thou seest the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Oppression.">oppression</a> of the poor, and violent perverting of <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judgment</a> and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for <i>he that is</i> higher than the highest regardeth; and <i>there be</i> higher than they.
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&#182; Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king <i>himself</i> is served by the field.
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He that loveth <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">silver</a> shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this <i>is</i> also <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>.
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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good <i>is there</i> to the owners thereof, saving the beholding <i>of them</i> with their eyes?
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sleep.">sleep</a> of a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Industry; TG Labor.">labouring</a> man <i>is</i> sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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There is a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR grievous.">sore</a> evil <i>which</i> I have seen under the sun, <i>namely,</i> riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and <i>there is</i> nothing in his hand.
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As he came forth of his mother’s womb, <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 1: 21.">naked</a> shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
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And this also <i>is</i> a sore evil, <i>that</i> in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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All his days also he eateth in darkness, and <i>he hath</i> much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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&#182; Behold <i>that</i> which I have seen: <i>it is</i> good and comely <i>for one</i> to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Industry.">labour</a> that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it <i>is</i> his <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 10.">portion</a>.
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Every man also to whom God hath given <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/5/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">riches</a> and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/5/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Labor.">labour</a>; this <i>is</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/5/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Gifts of.">gift</a> of God.
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For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth <i>him</i> in the joy of his heart.
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